Mozilla 0.7 is OUT!

[Kye-U]

Forget about my question. IE6 is still faster than Avant ^_^

[hpguru]

quote:Originally posted by CobraA1

Who said that http enhancements are the only way to make efficient use of the pipe?

MozillaFirebird, for example, seems to do a lot of pre-loading - every time I try to download something with it, it mysteriously begins in the middle of the download instead of at the beginning. It's obviously been busy in the background.

Nothing more than a gimmick and a potentially hazardous one at that. Making more use of the pipe shouldn't be confused with more efficient use. I wouldn't think of prefetching as being efficient unless the browser could learn from my online behavior so as to accurately predict what links I might click and fetch those only. What a privacy nightmare that would be!

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Unfortunately, it seems that Windows isn't slowing MozillaFirebird down - I just tested MozillaFirebird in Linux, with the same dismal results when loading the backflip page.  It's a tad faster, but not fast enough.

Not what I would have expected. I know Netscape Communicator was a lot faster under Linux than its Win32 counterpart. The GUI was rather flaky though.


God protect me from your followers.

[hpguru]

Sorry Kye-U, I missed your question. I don't use any of the IE clones and I don't care for MDI either. Actually I already have "tabs". The Windows TaskBar. The Taskbar has never been an irritant to me as it apparently is to some.


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[Shea]

hey hpguru, I use your security settings but your always saying how fast IE is and I don't see mine as that fast. Do you have any other settings or tricks that make it faster?




[Shea][-thu]

[hpguru]

Sure I'll post them in their own thread.


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[Shea]

Ok thanx.




[Shea][-thu]

[CobraA1]

quote:
 Nothing more than a gimmick and a potentially hazardous one at that. Making more use of the pipe shouldn't be confused with more efficient use.

True, but I'm just pointing out that the pipe can be used differently.

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Not what I would have expected. I know Netscape Communicator was a lot faster under Linux than its Win32 counterpart. The GUI was rather flaky though.

It is.  I'm using MozillaFirebird, so I'm not using the flaky GUI .

The page I was testing was a rather exceptional case - one huge, long HTML document.  It makes the differences between the browsers obvious .

I found some tips about MozillaFirebird here, BTW:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=30552&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

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The Taskbar has never been an irritant to me as it apparently is to some.

I am an unmerciful multitasker - rarely do I have enough taskbar space for a lot of browser windows .  I also have a start button, a clock, and a bunch of icons in my taskbar.  I can fit a lot more tabs in Mozilla's tabbar than Windows can in its taskbar .